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Digital library use : social practice in design and evaluation / edited by Ann Peterson Bishop, Nancy A. Van House, and Barbara P. Buttenfield.

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Digital library use : social practice in design and evaluation / edited by Ann Peterson Bishop, Nancy A. Van House, and Barbara P. Buttenfield.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Bishop, Ann P.
  • Buttenfield, Barbara Pfeil.
  • Van House, Nancy A.
Description
ix, 341 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Digital libraries and electronic publishing
Uniform Title
Digital libraries and electronic publishing.
Subject
  • Digital libraries > Planning
  • Digital libraries > Social aspects
  • Information Systems
  • Information technology > Social aspects
  • Libraries
  • Library Automation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Introduction : digital libraries as sociotechnical systems / Nancy A. Van House, Ann Peterson Bishop, and Barbara P. Buttenfield -- Documents and libraries : a sociotechnical perspective / David M. Levy -- Finding the boundaries of the library without walls / Catherine C. Marshall -- Ecological perspective on digital libraries / Vicki L. O'Day and Bonnie A. Nardi -- Designing digital libraries for usability / Christine L. Borgman -- People in digital libraries : multifaceted approaches to assessing needs and impact / Gary Marchionini, Catherine Plaisant, and Anita Komlodi -- Participatory action research and digital libraries : reframing evaluation / Ann Peterson Bishop ... [et al.] -- Colliding with the real world : heresies and unexplored questions about audience, economics, and control of digital libraries / Clifford Lynch -- Information and institutional change : the case of digital libraries / Philip E. Agre.
  • Transparency beyond the individual level of scale : convergence between information artifacts and communities of practice / Susan Leigh Star, Geoffrey C. Bowker, and Laura J. Neumann -- Digital libraries and collaborative knowledge construction / Nancy A. Van House -- Flora of North America project : making the case [study] for social realist theory / Mark A. Spasser.
ISBN
0262025442
LCCN
^^2002045248
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library